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I guess I'll direct it to you, since you've mentioned a familiarity with modern craftsmen.How are modern bottles being produced today? Are CNC's used? Are 3D lasers used to measure and transfer information from older bottles? Then fine details finished by craftsmen?

Thanks,

Rube.

Dear Rube,

Sorry that I missed your post at first place, but I will try to answer your questions as I can.

The bottles are still made by craftman one by one, hand by hand, from the material choosing, cutting, shaping, hollowing, polishing..etc, every single process are still done by the hands, but the machines being used today are much faster than old manual one. there is no CNC, and 3d laser involved so far as I know.

By the way, although my 'love' is MPIP, I am one of the people here who doesn't care so much about the age or utility of a bottle, and can and do appreciate younger, newer, beautiful and artful bottles. Some of us here are similar in that respect, and then we have the more 'purist' collectors, who prefer the original 'made for snuffing', old, provenance etc... . which is also fine, just a different slant based on the beauty and variety of snuff bottles, whether new, young, or old, or antique...

Don't get discouraged, or take things too personal. You have come a long way in the short time you are collecting! You have acquired some bottles that I and others really admire (and covet. haha). But if we all liked the same things, the world would be a boring place, right?